Pfftt Quotes & Sayings

Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible. — Jerry Bridges

He's a great guy, she said ,and he heard her try to sound enthusiastic,like she was selling herself on her soon-to-be-husband's greatness ... and then,in a whispered rush, just before she cut the connection,he thought he heard her say,Sometimes I wish it had been you — Jennifer Weiner

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living. — Bell Hooks

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move. — Jeff Bingaman

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids. — Diego Della Valle

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. — Lynn Abbey

Then she turned, punched me in the arm, and ran in her
bunk. I said with a straight face. — Phil Wohl

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. — Marcus Aurelius

I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke. — Jeff Foxworthy

I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better. — Bertolt Brecht

We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression. — Tori Amos

If you don't meet resistance with resistance, it dissipates dramatically. It just softens. Try it! Next time somebody says to you, "I'm right, and you're wrong," say, "Pfftt, you're right. You are right. You are right." And mean t. In other words, don't mock them. don't be sarcastic. "You're right." And then watch how, all the sudden, their legs almost go right out from under them. They don't have the energy to blast you, because you just took the fuel away from the fire. — Abraham Hicks

You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don't last. — Brit Bennett

A circular plot structure, often seen in adventure novels and quest fantasies, is a narrative devise involving setting, character, and theme. Typically a protagonist ventures from home (or the starting place of the story), goes on a journey, often a dangerous one in which many challenges are overcome, and then returns home a changed person. The plot is usually chronological, with the events occurring in a setting that becomes a circle. By returning the character to the place where he started, the author can emphasize the character's growth or change while also highlighting the theme of the story. — Carl M. Tomlinson

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease. — Chrystos

vowing himself to "just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." After — Philip Roth